Davis v. Cuesta’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1969 · most notably Williams v. Sauls (1942), 56 So. 2d 905 - Poindexter v. Seaboard Air Line R. Co. (1951)
4 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Merchants Transportation Co. v. Daniel · Lindsay v. Thomas · Dunn Bus Service, Inc. v. McKinley · Becker v. Blum · Miami Beach Railway Co. v. Dohme
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The claim of its benefits by this plaintiff presupposes his own contributory negligence in getting himself in the perilous position. Therefore, if his contributory negligence continued until the collision he cannot avail."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perdue v. Copeland
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.